One of the most iconic accessories of recent times has to be the “bee keeper” hat from the Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2013 collection. It is everywhere! I don’t think I have seen a hat used in so many fashion spreads before (from the time the collection came out in October 2012 until now, it hasn’t [...]

This weekend I picked up the latest issue of “A Magazine”. “A Magazine” is a fashion magazine that has an interesting way of developing each issue, they have a guest curator each time that basically shares whatever they want with the readers (it’s full name is “A magazine curated by…”). Past curators include Yohji Yamamoto, [...]

Just a bit of a babble today. Animal prints have always been more or less fashionable (well,”always”…since using animal fur is out of the question). Leopard is by far the most popular print and you can much find it in some sort of form all year round, in all different colours. It’s so kitsch (and, [...]

This week I was saddened to learn the passing away of a lovely lady, Pascale Tassin, after a long battle against cancer. Pascale worked in a hat workshop called “Prise de Tête” in Paris (it closed a few years ago), along with Cécile Roumanet. In 2006, in the middle of my fashion design course, I [...]

Fashion Paris Week (spring 2013) has come to a close and I must say that I’m quite surprised! My two favourite shows are from houses that usually I couldn’t really care less for – Valentino and Alexis Mabille! Crazy! First off, It has to be said there were some (other) great shows but they were [...]

For Christmas, I was lucky enough to be given a copy of “Prada & Schiaparelli : Impossible Conversations”, the catalogue/book of the exhibition that was held from May until August 2012 at the MET in New York. I obviously didn’t get to go to the exhibition (sniff sniff…), so it’s hard to say if it [...]

Asia is getting very important in the fashion world and everybody seems to be wondering how things are going to develop over there : new consumers? new trends? new production systems? We are already seeing more and more asian models on the runway (my fav : the chinese, Liu Wen!), which is far from a [...]

Autumn is starting to set it (I have yet another cold!) and I know what you are thinking, “What is THE hat to wear this season?”. And if you’re not, you really should be (otherwise you’ll end up with a cold…). The answer is a balaclava! They are everywhere! Balaclavas first came into the lime [...]

All the fashion weeks ended recently (for Spring 2013) and there was some lovely show – Jason Wu, Mary Katrantzou, Alexander McQueen…and some I found pretty awful (Jean-Paul Gaultier was a true joke). One of my favorite shows was Gareth Pugh‘s, it was very sharp and powerful. I usually look at the shows on Style.Com [...]

When I came back from Lisbon I spent a few days in Paris. As well as going to the famous Louvre museum for the first time (to be honest I prefer the MET in New York), I also went to the “Cité de la Mode et du Design” to see the two exhibitions being held [...]